Sierra County, New Mexico

In west-central NM, northwest of Las Cruces; organized Apr 3, 1884 from Socorro County (prior to statehood). Name Origin: For the Sierra de los Caballos Range, Spanish 'saw' for the shape of the mountains, thus 'saw-toothed mountain of the horses.' The county may have been named for the Sierra family, whose members included Nicholas de la Sierra

But that's not why that High Desert/High Sierra county was the big winner when it came to slicing up the state's share of the federal transportation bill, giving it $722 million to Los Angeles' relatively paltry $625 million.

The concept of a regional Web site," said Vickee Greer, also project co-coordinator and the bioterrorism/disaster coordinator for Sierra County Health and Human Services, "was driven by the necessity of maximizing rural public health resources.

Rio Grande silvery minnow (Hybognathus amarus), a small fish that formerly occurred throughout most of the Rio Grande but now survives only from Cochiti Dam in Sandoval County downstream to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico, on June 6;

In 1997, Johnson says, Gonzalez led a demonstration of some 600 people in front of the office of another Truth or Consequences weekly, the Sierra County Sentinel, to protest its story of an FBI raid of his clinic.

The New Mexico Game and Fish Department, for instance, dropped its plan to reintroduce desert bighorn sheep in the Caballo Mountains partly because the Sierra County Commission insisted that the plan conflicted with its "culture and custom.

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